Program Selections - Music for All

Music for All releases
ground-breaking report
Within Our Power: The Progress, Plight and
Promise of Arts Education for Every Child
This past September, Music for All released the report WITHIN OUR POWER:
The Progress, Plight and Promise of Arts Education for Every Child. The report
documents the status and condition of arts education programs in all New
Jersey public schools. It has been hailed as the most comprehensive report
on arts education ever created at the state level.
Schedule of World
Premiere Events
• September 13, 2008 Gala
concert at the Musical
Arts Center on the Indiana
University Bloomington
campus.
• October 19, 2008 with the
Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra at the Hilbert Circle
Theatre in Indianapolis as part
of the acclaimed St.Vincent
Family Series.
Harris Poll Provides
Surprising Findings
Those With More Education are More Likely to Have
Higher Household Incomes
Whether it’s chorus, band or violin lessons, music impacts American
lives. While singing in a chorus or playing an instrument is fun, it can also
provide important skills like creative problem solving that can help lead
to higher education and incomes as well as personal fulfillment. Music
education is associated with those who go on to higher education. In
looking at what groups may have participated more in music, education
shows the largest differences.
• Two-thirds (65%) of those with a high school education or less
participated in music compared to four in five (81%) with some
college education and 86 percent of those with a college education.
The report uncovered that more than 77,000 students attend school in
the state of New Jersey every day with no access to arts education and only
3% of the elementary schools provide the level of arts education required
by the state.
Building on the successful research in New Jersey, several states
have inquired to partner with Music for All to conduct similar statewide
studies. Music for All will be launching statewide research projects in
New Hampshire and Wisconsin with more states to be announced soon.
The Census Project is being hailed as a model for how other states and
communities may measure the status and condition of arts education.
Download the report at www.artsednj.org.
, celebrating kids and their love
of music, is a new series of live multimedia concerts and online social
networking from the Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-
Winning HBO® documentary series The Music In Me, Leslie Stifelman.
events will feature the
musical performances and stories of young musicians from diverse
cultural and regional backgrounds throughout the country who are
making connections between their music and the world around
them. These events will illustrate how learning about music plays
an integral role in shaping young lives with often surprising and
powerful results, and will explore how every child is on a path
towards finding their own “groove.”
The World Premiere of is an
Indiana statewide initiative in partnership with the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
and Music for All. This program is made possible by the generous
support of the NAMM Foundation.
• The largest group to participate in music, however, are those with a
post graduate education as almost nine in ten (88%) of this group
participated while in school.
Music education is also associated with higher incomes.
• Three-quarters of people (74%) with household incomes of $34,999
or less and 72 percent of those with incomes of $35,000-$49,999
participated in music, compared to 83 percent of those with incomes
of $150,000 or more.
• The higher the household income, the more likely they participated in
a music program.
These are some of the findings of a Harris Poll of 2,565 adults
surveyed online between October 9 and 15, 2007 by Harris Interactive®.
All Kinds of Kids,
Making All Kinds of Music
Learn more at musicforall.org
Musical kids ages 7-12 who are talented instrumental musicians,
composers, singer-songwriters and vocalists are invited to upload
their musical performances – of any style or genre – to www.
findingthegroove.com, an online community where children can
share their unique musical stories with each other. We are looking
for down-to-earth kids from all walks of life that can participate on a
high musical level but do not necessarily have to be on the fast track
to a professional career.
A handful of the most talented youth who submit videos online will
be chosen to perform live onstage with the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra and the Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra. Some
children will also have the opportunity to perform solo or with their
own groups. Video clips from other amazing submissions will also be
shown during the program.
Visit www.findingthegroove.com beginning February 28, 2008
for more details, and see first-hand that music is alive and well and
living in the hearts and minds of children everywhere!
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